Here’s the trailer for Tom Cruise’s new movie: The Mummy. I’m looking forward to seeing it and adding it to my syllabus on Orientalism and Egyptomania in literature, theatre, and film (when I taught this seminar at Harvard, I received an award for excellence in teaching). Considering the number of mummies I have handled in Egypt and Sudan, I often wonder if I might be cursed too…
At work at the Great Pyramids of Giza (Photo: Emily O’Dell)
